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Euler's Gem: the Polyhedron Formula and Birth of Topology
Euler's Gem: the Polyhedron Formula and Birth of Topology
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Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so simple it can be explained to a child.
tells the illuminating story of this indispensable mathematical idea.